| Note: This is an hackathon project.
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As the name suggests, Ike is an AI-powered Answer Engine. However, this Answer Engine is specifically tailored for the G.C.E. O/L specification. Now, explaining what that entails might be as tricky hehe, so let me walk you through my process to shed some light on it.
First, I went on a digital treasure hunt and snagged the freely available textbooks from the Educational Publication Department of Sri Lanka. I grabbed the Grade-9, Grade-10, and Grade-11 textbooks since the G.C.E. O/L examination relies heavily on these three grades. These textbooks covered subjects like:
- Mathematics
- Science
- History
- Geography
- Business & Accounting Studies
- I.C.T.
- Health Science
- Civic
- Entrepreneurship Studies
I then performed the daring feat of extracting the text directly from these PDFs, no fancy refinement, just a straightforward conversion from PDF to text. After splitting them up, I stored them with FAISS, used langchain, and magically transformed them into a question-answer bot. I also tapped into Google Translate for Sinhala-English translation because, hey, I want students to use it in Sinhala too!
So, in a nutshell, Ike is essentially a customized answer engine for GCE O/L specifications.
Well, mostly because there's a scarcity of online resources, especially in Sinhala. My grand plan is to refine the datasets further, add more data including O/L past papers and answers, so it covers an even wider array of question-answer formats. But for now, here's what I've got.
Tested on WSL (Ubuntu) and Python 3.10.12, use a Virtual Environment.
git clone https://github.com/RezSat/ike
cd ike
-----> add the google api key inside config.py (for now its already there)
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.pyThat's it! Just run it and visit the provided URL, e.g., http://127.0.0.1:5000.
DEMO: https://yehanwasura.pythonanywhere.com/
Coming Soon!
Yes, there are a few known issues that should be as easy to solve as finding your socks in the morning, but alas, time was not on my side. My computer decided to take a vacation and gave me a headache to fix it. Anyways, here are some issues:
- Not properly rendering answers for the Sinhala version
- The image answer option is taking a snooze (heheh)
- Sometimes it decides to crash with a Reason: OTHER (yeah, I don't really get what that is either.)
- It sometimes gives stupid results for the same questions, I guess that can be overcome by refining the dataset more